Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of the week, students will be able to...

• analyze literature as evidenced by completing and presenting an independent reading project.
• practice the skill of description and analysis as evidenced by writing journal entries for the junior portfolio.

• Have journals in class.

Homework:

• Due Wed 3/19: Bring any Make Up or Absent Work to Complete or Silent Work
• Due Fri 3/21: VER- Flashcards/Study for Quiz

1. Bring silent work to complete on Wednesday block day.
2. Have handouts, binder paper, journals, writing utensils, and classwork with you every day

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• How is personal narrative writing important to the junior portfolio?

1. Learning Logs: Update every day with homework, reminders, and essential questions.
2. VER- Vocabulary
3. Journals: "Gratitude"
   1. Title, Date.
   2. Write for the entire time, keep your pencil/pen moving.
   3. Write a full page or more.
   4. Count your words and put the total at the top.

• In a society- and frankly, in a school- as goal oriented as ours, it is possible to lose sight of what one has amid the quest for what one wants. For what are you presently most grateful in your life? Are your feelings of deepest gratitude directed toward any particular person or thing?